Books

Digital Energetics Digital Energetics Anne Pasek, Cindy Kaiying Lin, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper and Jordan B. Kinder 2023 Spring
Exploring the connections between energy and media—and what those connections mean for our current moment
Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang and Simon Appleford, Editors 2024 Fall
A resource for planning, reimagining, and participating in the digital transformation of graduate study in the humanities
Digital Memory and the Archive Digital Memory and the Archive Wolfgang Ernst Jussi Parikka, Editor 2012 Fall
Explores how media infrastructure, not content, shapes contemporary digital culture
Digital Sensations: Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality Digital Sensations Space, Identity, and Embodiment in Virtual Reality Ken Hillis 1999 Fall
Considers the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying virtual reality, and how the technology affects the real world.
Digital Shift: The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Digital Shift The Cultural Logic of Punctuation Jeff Scheible 2015 Spring
Examines the punctuation of our digital lives and why it matters
Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry Digital State The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry Thomas J. Misa 2013 Fall
The rise of Minnesota computing after World War II—the country’s first fully realized hotbed of computer technology
Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age Mark Jarzombek 2016 Fall
Rethinking the philosophical and anthropological basis of our ontology
Digitize and Punish: Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now Gary Hall 2008 Fall
How open access can transform academia for the better
Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet Digitizing Race Visual Cultures of the Internet Lisa Nakamura 2007 Fall
The implications of how we see and exhibit race and ethnicity online
Dining Car to the Pacific: The “Famously Good” Food of the Northern Pacific Railway Dining Car to the Pacific The “Famously Good” Food of the Northern Pacific Railway William A. McKenzie 2004 Fall
A tribute to the lost era of the railway dining car, with 150 authentic recipes—back in print!
Directed by Allen Smithee Directed by Allen Smithee Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock, Editors 2001 Spring
A new estimation of Hollywood’s least appreciated director.
Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy Disagreement Politics and Philosophy Jacques Ranciere 2004 Fall
An elegant and surprising exposè of the failings of political philosophy
Discerning the Subject Discerning the Subject Paul Smith 1988 Spring
A critique of the debates on the status of the “subject.”
Discipline of Architecture Discipline of Architecture Andrzej Piotrowski and Julia Williams Robinson, Editors 2000 Fall
A polemical look at how architectural knowledge is produced, disseminated, and received.
Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Discomfort Food The Culinary Imagination in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art Marni Reva Kessler 2021 Spring
An intricate and provocative journey through nineteenth-century depictions of food and the often uncomfortable feelings they evoke
Disconnect: Facebook’s Affective Bonds Disconnect Facebook’s Affective Bonds Tero Karppi 2018 Fall
An urgent examination of the threat posed to social media by user disconnection, and the measures websites will take to prevent it
Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism: The Spanish Golden Age Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism The Spanish Golden Age Antonio Gomez-Moriana 1993 Spring
Gómez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazirillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina’s Don Juan play, and Columbus’s Diary. “Gómez-Moriana’s skillful handling of literary theory is matched by his thorough scholarship and excellent knowledge of history.” --Nicholas Spadaccini
Discourse, Figure Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring
Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
DisForming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular DisForming the American Canon African-Arabic Slave Narratives and the Vernacular Ronald A.T. Judy 1993 Fall
Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse’s claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to “reason” before his original introduction to Western culture-a literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe. “Has the potential to completely remake American Studies while serving as an excellent example of what theoretical informed criticism should be.” --Paul Bové